The effects of confinement on the behavior of water molecules between parallel Au plates of (001) planes
- 15 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 122 (15), 154707
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1878552
Abstract
Molecular dynamics simulation is utilized to investigate the behavior of water molecules confined between two Au plates of (001) planes separated by gaps of 24.48, 16.32, 12.24, 11.22, and 10.20 angstrom. The simulation results indicate that the arrangements of the water molecules are dependent on the gap size. For the largest gap size, adsorption of the An surface creates two permanent water layers in the vicinity of each Au plate. Furthermore, in this case, the gap size is sufficiently large to permit the formation of a central region within which the water molecules are randomly oriented in a similar manner to bulk water molecules. The results indicate that the orientation of the first water layer directly absorbed by the plate surface does not change as the gap size between the two An plates is reduced. However, the orientations of the O-H bonds in the second water layer parallel to the surface rearrange to form hydrogen bonds between the water layers as the separation between the plates is decreased. Finally, an inspection of the variation of the self-diffusion coefficients with the gap size suggests that the difference between the dynamic properties of the water molecules in the z direction and the x-y plane decreases as the distance between the two Au plates increases. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.Keywords
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